Question

How do you write 5,000 in scientific notation?

Answer 1

`5000= 5 xx 1000`
in scientific notation 5000 can be written as `color(red)(5xx10^3`

Answer 2

`5*10^3`

Explanation:

The key realization is that when we write numbers in scientific notation, we want one digit before the decimal point.

In our case, we must loop it `3` times to the left. The number of times we loop it is our exponent, and looping left makes it positive. Thus, we have

`5*10^3`

Hope this helps!